Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Yarn Along

A lot of my projects are getting too big to carry around so I wanted to work on my socks. I decided to do a true afterthought heel - just cut the yarn and put a heel in. I followed the YouTube video and started to cut. It promised to be easy. So cut I did.

They lied. Next thing I knew my stitches on the needle (only two actually) were unraveling. Crap. So after a bit of surgery I started the heel. And now we are moving along.

So cutting the knitting - not so terrifying. It was easily fixed and I should be starting sock 2 today.

I finished the Year of Living Danishly and I liked it. Interesting information about other cultures. I'm back to reading "Big Stone Gap" since it's now on DVD.

i've become sort of a fan of the afterthought heel, although I guess mine isn't really afterthought since I knit in some scrap yarn where I want the heel to be and then cut that. It's always gone smoothly. I'd worry about getting the heel on each sock in the same place if I did it the other way!!!! (I'm pretty clutzy that way!)

Ooh, I've recently read The Year of Living Danishly and I loved it! Made me want to visit Denmark :) And... I've also just done my first pair of afterthought heels, and it has to be said I'm not terribly keen. I didn't have any unraveling, as such, but it will definitely need surgery to close up the big gusset gaps :( I don't like the heel shape either, so I think I'll be going back to traditional do-it-as-you-go heels next time!